Flyers

• The 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs are upon us, and by the end of it youll feel like The Walking Dead.
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• PITTSBURGH -- Even as late as Wednesday morning, Danny Briere was admitting nothing other than that he was feeling better every day.
(Philadelphia Daily News)
• Teams always make adjustments following Game 1 of a playoff series. The Flyers made an adjustment after one period, and the Penguins havent adjusted to their trouble with protecting leads in quite a while.
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• Pittsburgh led 3-0 after 20 minutes, and the two teams had collected 39 hits in that frame (20 PHI, 19 PIT). Over the final 40 minutes, Philadelphia scored three unanswered and the teams combined for 34 hits, five fewer over twice the span.
(Bleacherreport.com)
• PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Jakub Voracek beat Marc-Andre Fleury from in close 2:23 into overtime to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 4-3 comeback victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.
(Associated Press)
• The Pittsburgh Penguins led the NHL in scoring with 282 goals -- 13 more than the Boston Bruins (269) and 18 more than the Philadelphia Flyers (264) – but team defensive lagged the last two weeks of the regular season.
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• VOORHEES, N.J. — There are playoff opponents and then there are those that make your skin crawl. The kind of rival that needs to do nothing special to stir up the emotions, bringing out the best and the worst in a team, often at the same time.
(PennLive.com)
• When the Flyers face the Penguins in Game 1 of the Pennsylvania Cold War series Wednesday night in Pittsburgh, they will have a confident, elite goaltender who has their collective backs.
(Philadelphia Daily News)
• PITTSBURGH --The Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers, big rivals about to meet in a very big series, spent their Saturday tuning up, not toughing it up, only six days after playing an especially intense and emotional game.
(NHL.com)
• PITTSBURGH (AP) - Scott Hartnell can feel the animosity the second the Philadelphia Flyers forward skates onto the ice at Pittsburghs Consol Energy Center. Theres a lot of hatred by the city against us, Hartnell said. We thrive off that.
(NBC Sports)